I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A thought is an idea in transit.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
